For a very long time, mosquitoes have been known or suspected to consume plant liquids.
Recently eclosed mosquitoes cannot survive long without consuming sugary plant liquids …

Mosquitoes are best known for their proclivity towards biting humans and transmitting
bloodborne pathogens, but there are over 3500 species, including both blood-feeding and …

Feeding upon vertebrate blood by mosquitoes permits transmission of diverse pathogens,
including viruses, protozoa, and nematodes. Despite over a century of intensive study, no …

Vector control has been the most effective preventive measure against malaria and other
vector-borne diseases. However, due to concerns such as insecticide resistance and budget …

Mosquitoes are emerging as model systems with which to study innate behaviours through
neuroethology and functional genomics. Decades of work on these disease vectors have …

The Culicomorpha are an infraorder of several families of blood-feeding flies, including
mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae). Here we discuss the evolutionary origins of blood-feeding …

Eilat virus (EILV) is an insect-specific alphavirus that has the potential to be developed into a
tool to combat mosquito-borne pathogens. However, its mosquito host range and …

Male mosquitoes of haematophagous species are obligate host-plant feeders, but female
mosquitoes also depend on sugary plant-derived food sources for building energy reserves …

Hemipterans, mosquitoes, and parasitic wasps probe in a variety of substrates to find hosts
for their larvae or food sources. Probes capable of sensing and precise steering enable …

Highlights•Several mosquito species specialize in feeding on ectothermic
hosts.•Mechanisms used by mosquitoes to locate ectothermic hosts are …